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Programme Note:In celebration of the Haydn bicentenary in 2009, this solo piano piece explores the various structures at play within sonata form. Through the development of monodic lines, archetypal pairings of ‘Fast’ and ‘Slow’ motion are combined in an overall sonata-allegro structure. The integration of narrative threads and recurring verses produces a shifting foreground, eventually receding to expose an underlying presence. This presence, (the starting point for Daycurrents), is none other than Haydn’s musical cipher, ‘B-A-D-D-G.’